Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.
Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.
Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools
Matthew Arnold, Merope
William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song
A. H. Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
William Johnson Cory, Ionica
Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems
Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted
William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book
Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series, (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
A. H. Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends
William J. Grayson, The Country
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada
Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English poet
August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
Also:
Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), American
